“Isn’t it nice the elite and VIPs have access to a test.”
it is ... and it’s also nice that the rest of us have access as well: LabCorp started offering the test to the general public last Thursday and Quest started offering it today. Jjust like all other testing, all it takes is a doctor’s order, AND due to the pence task force nuking a bunch of regs, CMS (and therefore private insurance) will pay for those tests even though they are still in the process of being FDA-approved ...
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/03/07/labcorp-and-quest-to-offer-coronavirus-tests.aspx
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-testing-diagnostic-covid19-united-states
So are you saying that you can call your doctor (I heard they don’t want you to just show up at the office) and they will call in a script for this test — bingo ?